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It’s not just younger members of Congress clamoring for generational change. Some veteran lawmakers who’ve been waiting in the wings for years for their chances to lead also want to see new blood.
Seniority also affects access to more desirable office space in the House Office Buildings: [3] after an office is vacated, members next in seniority can choose whether to move into it. Only after allocations for existing members are complete can incoming members be assigned offices via the congressional office lottery .
In the case of senators elected in a run-off election occurring after the commencement of a new term, or a special election, their seniority date will be the date they are sworn in and not the first day of that Congress. A senator may be simultaneously elected to fill a term in a special election and elected to the six-year term which begins on ...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) in a post on the social platform X said that Granger’s situation “reveals the problem with a Congress that rewards seniority & relationships more than merit & ideas ...
I certainly think that this page, and the Senate one, is poorer following the changes. While committee and leadership positions are not factors in seniority the topics are clearly linked as committee leadership is one of the primary reasons why seniority is important. Furthermore the change removes useful information and brings no obvious benefit.
McConnell’s floor remarks left some clues about what we can expect from McConnell the senior statesman, blessed with seniority in a chamber organized on the precious currency of longevity ...
Under Rule X, clause 2, not later "than March 31 in the first session of a Congress, after consultation with the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader, the Committee on Government Reform shall report to the House the oversight plans" of the standing committees along with any recommendations it or the House leaders have proposed ...
Therefore the 85th Congress and before has a different order from this master list and it may not be appropriate to include the tie-breakers much before then. One and only time (since popular election) two new senators would have had the same seniority was Claude Pepper and Charles Andrews , both special-elected in 1936, and the SHO gives it to ...